Most small internal-combustion engines commonly used in the model-building world use glow plugs for starting. Unfortunately, glow plugs have an operating voltage of 1.5 V, while fuel pumps, starter ...

For most cars and trucks, gasoline and diesel engines follow the same four basic steps to make power: intake, to get a mixture of fuel and air into the cylinders; compression, to squeeze that mixture ...

The popularity of diesel engines in passenger cars continues to fuel a number of innovations in the glow plug sector, writes Matthew Beecham. The main influences on the design of glow plugs centre on ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The glow plugs in a diesel are like the spark plugs in a gasoline engine, but they function differently. The only similarities between glow ...

There are three things a gasoline engine needs: air, fuel and spark. The spark plug ignites the air/fuel mixture, producing the combustion that powers the engine. Despite the fact that spark plugs ...

GM has issued a special coverage bulletin for certain units of the 2020 Chevy Silverado 1500 equipped with the 3.0L LM2 turbodiesel Duramax engine that may have been produced with a faulty glow plug ...